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Hogan, Moses Attack on Pearl Harbor
Moses Hogan was on the USS Montgomery (DD-121) when Pearl Harbor was attacked. As one of three stewards, he cooked and...
Aigner, Leslie Auschwitz
Leslie Aigner and the other living passengers were ordered out of the cattle car [Annotator's Note: upon their arrival...
Hughes, William Becoming a Soldier in Germany
William B. Hughes knew he wanted to be a soldier when he first saw his brother in uniform. He eventually joined the...
Berkman, Harold Buchenwald then End of War
Harold Berkman and his outfit [Annotator's Note: Company F, 2nd Battalion, 317th Infantry Regiment, 80th Infantry...
Altmann, Judith Deportation
On the morning after the last day of Passover in 1942, two SS officers and two Hungarian gendarmes knocked on the...
Inghram, Robert Escape Attempts
Robert Inghram lived in a room with an Eagle Squadron pilot [Annotator's Note: in Stalag Luft III, a prisoner of war...
Fisch, Robert From Mauthausen to LIberation
Robert Fisch was an inmate of Mauthausen which was the largest concentration camp built in Austria. That was done after...
Brooks, Curtis Internment at Santo Tomas
Curtis Brooks and his family were told by a Japanese civilian to move to Santo Tomas [Annotator's Note: to the Santo...
Finkelstein, Jacob Invasion, Genocide and Sobibor
The Russians invaded the section of Poland inhabited by Jacob Finkelstein prior to the Germans entering his town. The...
Kaufman, Luna Jewish Council and Police in the Ghetto
Luna Kaufman saw the Jewish Council in the Cracow ghetto as being collaborators. They had to do so in order to function...
Knobler, Paula Liberation and Freedom
Paula Knobler heard the sound of artillery as the Russians approached her concentration camp. The Germans evacuated...
Brooks, Curtis Life in the Santo Tomas Internment Camp
While there [Annotator's Note: in the Santo Thomas Internment Camp], Curtis Brooks and the other children started to...
Inghram, Robert POW Interrogation
Robert Inghram was taken to Frankfurt and interrogated there [Annotator's Note: after being shot down and captured in...
Jostad, Glen PTSD
Glen Jostad reveals the terrors of dreams he suffered resulting from his years of being a prisoner of war held by the...
Fisch, Robert PTSD and Humanity
Robert Fisch never wanted to talk about his wartime experiences at first. If asked, he would explain, but otherwise he...
Damberg, Wanda Relatives and the War
Wanda Damberg had relatives in Holland during the German occupation [Annotator’s Note: the German sweep into Holland...
Fisch, Robert Returning Home to the Russian Zone
Robert Fisch returned to Hungary which was in the Russian zone of occupation. The occupiers took from the returning...
Lauderdale, Dell Stateside Tour then Vietnam and Back
Dell Lauderdale had been to Japan twice and Korea once before his next assignment which was finally back to the United...
Carver, Jack The Enemy in the Ardennes
Jack Carver participated in the Battle of the Bulge when SS Panzer Divisions attacked green American units in the...
Knutson, Caroll Transfer to Stalag VII A
Carroll Knutson and his fellow POWs [Annotator's Note: prisoners of war] were forced marched by the Germans from their...